WhatsApp suspended on Wednesday the accounts of some Lebanese ministers from Saad Hariri’s former government, according to LBCI News. Relevant violations include any activity that could harm WhatsApp or its users, such as making automated fake accounts or collecting user information in an unauthorized manner.
Moreover, the firm announced that they may also ban accounts that send messages that are “illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, intimidating, harassing, hateful, racially, or ethnically offensive, or instigate or encourage conduct that would be illegal, or otherwise inappropriate, including promoting violent crimes,” according to the app’s Terms of Service page.
Like wise, all other apps and social media platforms, accounts are to be suspended, almost automatically, from WhatsApp if the app receives several complaints in a row against a particular user, whether valid or not.
Later, the firm announced that it’s making changes to its privacy policy from February 8, making it compulsory for users in all countries outside of Europe and the UK to share their data with its parent company, Facebook.
The change affects the way that the application processes data, and will apply regardless of whether or not the user has a Facebook account. The key updates include more information about how WhatsApp’s service and how it processes the data, how businesses can use Facebook hosted services to store and manage their WhatsApp chats
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